HFA Advanced Heart Failure Course 2025
This third edition of the HFA Advanced Heart Failure course took place in Vienna, Austria, on 20-21 February 2025.
It covers identification, initial management, referral criteria and final treatment in advanced HF care centres with heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices.
Lectures, case discussions and hands-on teaching are applied by an international panel of experts reaching out to the wider heart team: involving cardiologists and heart failure specialists and enlarging to cardiac surgeons, intensivists, and ventricular assist device coordinators.
Course Directors
Professor Maja Cikes, Croatia
Professor Wilfried Mullens, Belgium
Target Audience
- Younger cardiologists in advanced heart failure training
- Experienced cardiologists who want to update / learn about advanced heart failure
- Cardiac surgeons
- Intensivists
- Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) coordinators
Learning objectives
- Understand how to identify and evaluate advanced heart failure
- Know when to refer patients for heart transplant evaluation
- Learn how to manage acute and advanced heart failure with medical therapy and mechanical circulatory support
- Engage in the management of complex advanced heart failure cases
- Gain hands-on experience with hemodynamic evaluation and interpretation of data
Venue
Hilton Vienna Waterfront (Handelskai 269, 1020 Wien, Austria)
Contact us
For any further information, please contact us at seminars@escardio.org
Sessions
Pre-Course Content
Speaker(s): Kevin Damman (Groningen, NL), Finn Gustafsson (Copenhagen, DK), Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Linda Van Laake (Utrecht, NL), Luciano Potena (Ancona, IT), Finn Gustafsson (Copenhagen, DK)
Welcome, opening remarks
Speaker(s): Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE)
Diagnostic work-up of advanced Heart Failure
Speaker(s): Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Finn Gustafsson (Copenhagen, DK), Hoong Sern Lim (Birmingham, GB)
Hemodynamic cases and interactive learning lab (part 1)
Speaker(s): Michael Broome (Stockholm, SE)
Hemodynamic cases and interactive learning lab (part 1)
Speaker(s): Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Linda Van Laake (Utrecht, NL)
Hemodynamic cases and interactive learning lab (part 2)
Speaker(s): Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Linda Van Laake (Utrecht, NL)
Hemodynamic cases and interactive learning lab (part 3)
Speaker(s): Maja Cikes (Zagreb, HR), Linda Van Laake (Utrecht, NL)
Management of advanced HF - decongestion, guideline directed medical therapy and monitoring
Speaker(s): Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE), Guillaume Baudry (Nancy, FR), Wilfried Mullens (Genk, BE), Finn Gustafsson (Copenhagen, DK)
Inotropic support
Speaker(s): Tuvia Ben Gal (Petah Tikva, IL), Linda Van Laake (Utrecht, NL), Guillaume Baudry (Nancy, FR)
